You get so uneasy and annoyed when people speak about God as if they have seen Him. It gets worse when people speak as though they have had a conversation with God. You feel as if people are wasting precious time talking about God, who as far as you are concerned, does not exist. What makes you so certain God doesn't exist?
Marion Thomas
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I do not think God does not exist, I know he does exist it is called FAITH believing with out seeing. Do you think a man will sacrifice his life for the sinners of the world if he was not God or the son of God? I think not, therefore in my eyes, heart, and soul I know there is a God and there is a heaven. Just be glad all you who are atheist that, as you are on your death bed God gives you that chance to repent all your sins and ask for forgiveness. I pray you don't die suddenly to where you don't have that chance and spend an eternity burning and suffering in hell. You know eternity means forever. I do not need to see God to know he exist nor do I need to hear his voice, my heart and soul knows he exist because I love God from my heart and soul. It is not people putting it in my head either its my choice to believe in him or not. I let my heart and faith lead me not people, priests, or the pope. ME my HEART & SOUL.. <3
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Quote: "The general existance statement cannot be disproven". UnQuote.
One of the most valuable lessons I learned from Dr. Kargopolos from my PHIL 101 class in college.
You cannot prove nor disprove the existance of God. This was determined about 400 years ago during the great Medeival Debates of the existance of God by the Rabbinical Scholars, Christian Priests, and the Mohammedans against the 'Philosophers' (theists vs. the atheists).
It is the general existence statement which justifies both the existance of theists and atheists.
Saffren
From my understanding, god speaks to his people only through his chosen prophets, and only to the prophets through an angel. With this in mind, can I conclude that anyone else who claims to have spoken to or be able to have conversations directly with god or personally see him is either delusional or a charlatan?
Do you not get uneasy when people speak in delusional ways?
Should you not get annoyed when the speaker who claims to have spoken to or seen god is clearly a charlatan?
The message of Christ is in the gospels and only in the gospels did he spoke them. And that is not what people who talk about god talk about. If what people are concerned about is the interpretation of the church (questionable opinions of other people about heaven, hell, homosexuality, abortion etc) and not the message of Christ, then how is all this talk about god not a waste of time?
It depends on which variation of god is in question.
In a general view, there is no evidence that suggests that gods exist, and therefore no reason to believe that any god (including god) exists.
For a deistic god, there is simply no way to verify whether such an entity exists.
As for that one theistic god, I can have certainty that he does not exist because his believers have already killed him.
Geoff k
Belief is not a choice; if you are not convinced by something, then you cannot believe in it. I just am not convinced that there is a god, and thus I do not believe in God. It is not a case of ignorance, I am extremely well theologically read - not to mention philosophically. I don't believe in God because there is no proof. What makes you so sure that God exists... schizophrenia...
Some argue tradition - it was a lie then and a lie now; something purely designed by the Judges of Israel to create an ordered society; something designed by Constantine to control the large group of rebels in the Roman Empire, so named Christians. Religion is crowd control and God is faith, which as Nietzsche said is "not wanting to know what is true."
Say hypothetically I went off and wrote an extremely long book about a man (or woman) in the sky, and swore it was the truth to everyone I saw - would this be the beginning of yet another religion? I think not.
I'm too cool for you
The major philosophical criticisms of God as viewed by Judaism, Christianity and Islam are as follows:
1. Evil:
Because evil exists, God cannot be all-powerful. all-knowing and loving and good at the same time.
2. Pain:
Because God allows pain, disease and natural disasters to exist, he cannot be all-powerful and also loving and good in the human sense of these words.
3. Injustice:
Destinies are not allocated on the basis of merit or equality. They are allocated either arbitrarily, or on the principle of "to him who has, shall be given, and from him who has not shall be taken even that which he has." It follows that God cannot be all-powerful and all-knowing and also just in the human sense of the word.
4. Multiplicity:
Since the Gods of various religions differ widely in their characteristics, only one of these religions, or none, can be right about God.
5. Simplicity:
Since God is invisible, and the universe is no different than if he did not exist, it is simpler to assume he does not exist
I am in no way trying to make you not beleive in God. This is just why I think God does not exist.
If you think he does, then, by all means, believe. I will not critizise you.